NATCHITOCHES – The Annual McCutcheon Honors Recital will be held at Northwestern State University on Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. The concert was rescheduled from Jan. 16. Admission is free and open to the public. A livestream will be available at capa.nsula.edu/livestream.
The concert will feature Northwestern State music students Carlos Diaz del Valle on violin, Cullen Goscienski on saxophone, soprano Brooke Jones, Harmony Marsh on percussion, Lydia Orme on piano and Pattie Murr on tuba.
Those selected for the McCutcheon Honors Recital were student winners from each musical area having the most outstanding undergraduate fall jury performance. The students represent the areas of woodwinds, brass, strings, piano, percussion and voice.
This recital was established to honor Jim McCutcheon, a retired band teacher, who was active in instrument repair at NSU. McCutcheon wanted to do something to recognize outstanding student performance at Northwestern State and began offering a financial prize to those students selected to perform in the recital. After his death, his wife, Jo Lapeyrouse, chose to continue this tradition and has funded a scholarship in his name.
